Inclusive Practices: Blog 3 — Race

“It is impossible to think of education without thinking of power…the question…is not to get power, but to reinvent power.” [1] ~ Paul Freire SoN, as a student resource represents a point of contextualisation for students either at odds with their educational experiences, or in search of feedback that aligns with their experiences and subsequent… Continue reading Inclusive Practices: Blog 3 — Race

Reflective Report: Disobedience is the only way to behave

This essay centres around the exclusionary nature of the design industry. My two complementary artefacts—the book, Disobedient Objects and the Let’s Be Brief Creating Value Canvas—encourage students to think subversively, using a range of industry specific and wider cultural praxis to create and define spaces from an employment and sustainability standpoint. Ethnography — the Sixth… Continue reading Reflective Report: Disobedience is the only way to behave

Inclusive Practices: Blog 2 — Faith

belief/bɪˈliːf/nounan acceptance that something exists or is true, especially one without proof.“his belief in extraterrestrial life”trust, faith, or confidence in (someone or something).[1]‌  In a recent Sway in the Morning interview, and as a precursor to the launch of the film ‘The Book of Clarence’, actor LeKeith Stanfield, speaks to the notion of faith and… Continue reading Inclusive Practices: Blog 2 — Faith

Team Dreams

It was a crisp, late winter’s day in March 2020. I am unclear as to whether March is officially winter, but it felt like it. Standing in the Chelsea College of Arts of Arts courtyard, talking with my then course leader, it was difficult to foresee what the rest of the year—and indeed, the last… Continue reading Team Dreams

Responsible Design Frameworks + Guilt Free Consumption

As an institution, great strides are being made in creating a sustainable culture. My colleague Sarah Temple, has been, in part, instrumental in creating the Responsible Design Framework, which underpins much of LCC’s Design School’s strategy and curriculum: “The Responsible Design Framework recognises the need for design education to respond to the eco-social challenges of… Continue reading Responsible Design Frameworks + Guilt Free Consumption

Let’s Be Brief — Creating Values Canvas

During the last academic year, I have taken on a course coordinator role for the Diploma in Professional Studies, working with students across the Chelsea and Camberwell Graphic Design programme, and additionally, the Material & Spatial Practices, encompassing Product and Furniture Design, Interior Design, and the Interior and Spatial Design courses. Whilst having worked on,… Continue reading Let’s Be Brief — Creating Values Canvas

The New Reality Paradigm

One afternoon, after having picked my daughter up from school, she turned to me and said, “Are you working, Daddy?” I was wearing my spanking new Sony earphones — earphones that thirty years ago (I’m admittedly showing my age here) would have seen me turning myself half-deaf to A Happy Face, A Thumpin’ Bass, For… Continue reading The New Reality Paradigm

Trading Places — The Power of Empathy

The core of my pedagogic practice for the past year has transitioned from working in a subject-based teaching context (Graphic Design at Chelsea) to now teaching professional studies; a broad base of nuanced skills (soft skills) to enable design students to develop their professional practice. Ultimately preparing students for the world of work, developing agency… Continue reading Trading Places — The Power of Empathy